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WordSmitten's
Query Letter
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WordSmitten's
Query Letter
Workbook is the one we provide in our writing
workshops. This guide is an easy to use workbook that provides
a step-by-step approach to writing a contemporary, professional,
and persuasive cover letter.
Specifically
developed for unpublished writers, this workbook is for individuals
who have written and finished a manuscript and believe the work
is ready for a review by publishing executives. Whether you
write fiction, or you have a non-fiction book proposal containing
a synopsis and three chapters, these examples and lessons are
your guide.
In
three easy steps, you'll write a professional introduction,
a one-page query letter, to send your
manuscript to authors' representatives (literary agents)
to ask them to consider your work.
We
created this workbook in response to hundreds of questions,
comments, and suggestions -- requests from our members to provide
them with guidelines. In response, here's the information you
asked for -- in a brief and understandable format.
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